When you're Steven Spielberg and you know that you need to take all color out of the equation because you are talking about the serious effect divorce has on children -- so you opt for somber grays.

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When you're Steven Spielberg and you're a professor and your fall syllabus is SUBURBIA.

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When you're Steven Spielberg and you're young and hot and are living that private jet life with...a tweed blazer. SO AUTUMNAL!

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When you're Steven Spielberg and you decide that warm plum is the right color to help you describe the process behind Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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When you're Steven Spielberg and you're George Lucas and you pick waxed cotton to wear on the Raiders set. Damn, those jackets keep the fall moisture out.

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When you're Steven Spielberg and - OKAY, THIS IS NOT A SCARF, SWEATER, OR BLAZER - but you still manage an autumnal palate because that's who you are...in any decade.

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When you're Steven Spielberg and you're still a professor, but the tie is off, because you're getting serious and talking about your own divorce.

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When you're Steven Spielberg and you're wearing your most emerald green scarf/sweater combo to talk about the jewel of your life, Kate Capshaw.

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When you're Steven Spielberg and you wear your coziest sweater to do a bit with Jiminy Glick. You gotta feel safe!

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When you're Steven Spielberg and maybe it's summer and maybe it's not, but you still need a nice fall blazer to keep you happy and warm, as you survey your kingdom of dreams.
Spielberg is now streaming on all HBO platforms.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: mid-October. Pumpkins should be carved and muffins should be in the oven. Children should be jumping into piles of leaves while co-eds snuggle on hayrides. Nights should be spent with hot soup and heavy socks. Every part of life should feel like a hug because it is fall. But it doesn’t feel like fall right now. Dangerous wild fires are raging through California and the weather in New York City can best be described as “sauna.” However, there is one new film on streaming that keeps the dreams of autumn alive and it is HBO’s new documentary Spielberg.

Spielberg is a fascinating look at the life and work of the legendary American director Steven Spielberg, and though it’s never addressed, careful viewers will not be able to overlook the irrefutable fact that Steven Spielberg is our secret King of Autumn. Throughout the film he shows us a seemingly never-ending supply of cozy scarfs, soft, wooly sweaters, and smart tweed jackets. Even in archival footage and vintage photos, he shows a flair for the fall. This is a man who is always dressed like a liberal arts professor. This is a man who lives every day like it’s November 17th and there’s an apple pie on the stove and a pile of books by the roaring fire.

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Now, there’s a semi-logical explanation for the plethora of plaid scarfs and jewel-toned knits we see in Spielberg. In an interview with Indiewire’s Liz Shannon Miller, Spielberg director Susan Lacy explained that she had to follow the auteur around the world for a year and sneak interview time into his insanely busy schedule. “We couldn’t even try to make him [wear the same T-shirt] because, you know, he’s all over the place. So I just went with it,” Lacy said. “He has a wonderful collection of scarves,” she added.

Indeed, he does! To celebrate Steven Spielberg’s “wonderful collection of scarves” and sweaters and blazers and sheer fall finery, we went through the doc collecting snapshots of his most autumnal looks. For bonus fun, we even grabbed some of the vintage looks he sported that were featured throughout the film, thus proving that before he was the King of Autumn, he was an Autumnal Prince.